Ease into the great outdoors on Maine’s Public Reserved Lands. Download a free map from the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands (BPL) that details more than a half-million acres of public reserved lands.
Your Maine Lands: Recreational Map & Guide to Public Reserved Lands describes each of Maine’s Public Reserved Lands units and the recreational opportunities available on them. Use this fabulous resource to plan everything from a day hike to a week-long escape.
In comparison to state parks, Maine’s Public Reserved Lands are remote and managed for for recreation, wildlife, and timber harvesting among other things. BPL organizes the public lands into 29 units ranging in size from 500 to more than 43,000 acres. Also part of the program are many other smaller scattered lots. All are open for recreation, and many offer unique, back-country experiences.
What’s special about Maine Public Reserved Lands
“We have so many special places in Maine besides our 48 state parks and historic sites,” says Will Harris, director of Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands. “We want to help Maine folks find their own special places to experience, to go camping, hiking, fishing and hunting, and in general to have a great time and create wonderful memories.”
Many of Maine’s public reserved lands offer outstanding landscapes and vistas, such as the Bigelow Preserve, which includes the entire Bigelow range. And many provide remarkable hiking and camping opportunities, such as the Cutler Coast overlooking the Bay of Fundy. Some areas, such as the more than 41,000 acres of the Seboomook Lake unit, offer excellent hunting, fishing and boating. And others have unique habitats, such as the alpine landscape at Mount Abram, the Great Heath peat bog, and the Machias River Corridor’s wild Atlantic salmon run.
Year-round recreational opportunities also including bird-watching, wildlife-watching, biking, swimming, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and cross-country skiing.
I am writing in request for your free map & guide to public recreation centers, and parks. Thank-you.
P.S. I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!!! JUST FOUND IT, LOOKING FOR NEW RECIPES FOR OUR DELICILOUS SHRIMP….
Hi Pamela,
Glad you like the site. The map is available via download or by contacting Maine’s Bureau of Parks and Lands–you’ll see the links in the post. I don’t have copies, sorry. Best, H.
i wanted a list of all the primitive (free) campsites in maine.. is that on the map??
Go to ParksandLands.com and look under Maine Public Reserved Lands–many have primitive camping that’s free. Other sites are in the North Woods and elsewhere. There’s no one master list of which I’m aware.
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